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The symmetry in nature (beauty) combined with what it does in spring is easily recognised by the same symmetry within. If this recognition is interrupted by reasoning, it will look nice and be pleasing to the mind, and the quality or depth of the experience is likely to finish there. read more…

You may be quite connected and feeling good, or disconnected and feeling not so good, and not necessarily aware of why, unless you choose to notice ‘why do I feel like this, and what might bring the opposite?’ read more…

Before you heard the word yoga (which means union), the experience of it was available to you. You were able to allow awareness to come into your conscious state. When conscious awareness is present/active, you are able to be aware of/release yourself from, the grip of mind and the senses. The process of the mind and senses can be observed, because they are not you. Just as you can observe your hand typing on a keyboard, your hand is not you, it is your instrument. The same is true for your mind. read more…

Surya Namaskara, aka salute to the sun, is a solar practice, energising. You might choose to do it facing the rising sun. It utilises asana, pranayama, and can involve different forms of awareness including chakra awareness and mantra. Using the whole body, moving with awareness and rhythm, timed with the breath, the whole bodymind is brought together as one, read more…

Just the facts, sit back, and observe
Sutra 33 from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras is a cracker. Simple, effective and costs nothing to put into practice. Returns for you are a peaceful, undisturbed mind.

Rather than being in reaction to information received through the senses, being hot or cold, being affected by things adversely such as bad odour, taste or sudden sounds/movements, instead, you could be present and knowing that you are experiencing them. No like or dislike. Knowing that you are not the experience, read more…

Sankalpa is often asked about by those who hear the word for the first time during Yoga Nidra. ‘What was that thing you said, that word… I can’t remember…’ My free Yoga Nidra is a short form, so does not have Sankalpa. My Yoga Nidra read more…